For more than two years Arizonans have had to put up with the constant legal challenges to the 2022 election brought by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem. In a year that saw all of the state-level Trump endorsed candidates in Arizona go down, Lake lost the gubernatorial race to Katie Hobbs by about 17,000 votes, and Adrian Fontes clobbered Oath Keeper Finchem by more than 120,000 for Secretary of State. Ever since, Lake and Finchem have been in and out of court claiming the election was stolen.
I don’t remember how many appeals the two have filed, at least enough that you’d need both hands to count them all. On top of that, we had the bogus Cyber Ninja saga that went on for months and found no fraud, but that didn’t stop Republicans from inventing a shitload of other conspiracy theories for both the 2020 and 2022 elections—everything from 300,000 Mexicans crossing the border to vote for Democrats, to GOP Chair Kelli Ward saying nearly 413,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden by some nefarious group in Venezuela.
Then there was the 2022 voting machine glitch in Maricopa County that sent Republicans into a tizzy. Surely it must be deliberate! It wasn’t, it was a technical boo-boo that did not keep one person from voting, but in Lake and Finchem’s telling, the machine error was purposeful and the person behind it was Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who Lake said added 300,000 ballots for Katie Hobbs. Lake blamed Richer so loudly and so often that she is now the subject of his defamation lawsuit, which he filed after her very direct and specific accusations resulted in dangerous threats to Richer and his family. Lake lied about him the same way Rudy Giuliani lied about Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman tampering with the Georgia election, so if I were Lake I wouldn’t be sleeping too soundly—$148 million will keep you up at night.
Lake and Finchem eventually ran out of courts in Arizona, which at every level denied their appeals and finally sanctioned their lawyers for filing the same frivolous BS over and over. Now what? So, in March the doofus duo repackaged the same BS and appealed their case to the US Supreme Court. That’s the ticket! Lake said the new evidence was “explosive”; on Bannon’s War Room cesspool Mike Lindell said Lake’s claim will “shock the world”; the Overstocked asshole said their case will “redefine history.”
No, it didn’t. Today the US Supreme Court gave this case the only footnote to history it will ever earn when it sent the Arizona losers packing. No history was redefined, the world reported no shock.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal brought by Arizona Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, bringing finality to the duo's legal effort challenging the use of electronic voting machines two years to the day after it began.
They’ll continue to grift off the stolen election bullcrap as they move from one election to the next. This year Finchem is running for the State Senate and Kari Lake is running against Democrat Ruben Gallego for the US Senate, while she tries to figure out her position on abortion—just how much 1864 is she? Arizona dodged a bullet when Lake lost the gubernatorial race, because she would’ve signed all the hateful bills the Republican Legislature sent her, and they were bad, very bad, Greg Abbott-worthy. Thank you, Gov. Hobbs, who set a record with her veto pen. In the US Senate, Lake would be just as cruel or worse for the entire country, so if you can, please send a little love Ruben’s way.